[Lx]

You can build Macs with ATX boards? Can you use an ASUS with a duel video and dual video cards?
What do you need? I know they had Macs running on Dells but they were very tricky. What O/S does yours use, does it matter? Is the performance the sane? Awesome!
I’d love t do this, say you mind if I pick your mind???

I’d love to have a Mac that was at a decent buy plus I could build it myself!

[Swordmaker]

I am not replying to a certain poster who purports to be a Bible believing Christian. I find his desire to build a Mac using pirated OSX software in contravention of the Copyright and Patent holder's explicit OSX license not to mention all the other app licenses that are included with a legitimate Apple Mac to be hypocritical in light of the inflexible positions he's taken on religious threads on FreeRepublic.

I'm not surprised because of the completely non-Christian attitudes he's presented, statements, and performance he's made in this thread. I am not shocked at all. Just saddened.

For a Christian perspective on such software piracy, I point interested people to the following discussions:

What the Bible has to say about software piracy, part 1—virtual preacher.org

What the Bible has to say about software piracy, part 2—virtual preacher.org

I am not perfect. I've downloaded and used pirated software in the past. But if I decided to use it, I bought it. There even may be some unlicensed software still on my computer, but I don't use it, and when I run across it, it's gets deleted.

Surprisingly, I've found some of the worst offenders in pirating software were school districts, non-profits, and churches. It seemed they have a sense of entitlement. Sad.

In any case, Apple will not go after individuals who want to make a Frankentosh. . . unless they attempt to produce them for economic gain ala Psystar. . . but they would be entirely within their legal rights to do so.

That unmentionable person wants to ignore the protections the Constitution provides to the creators of Intellectual property so that he can have what he wants cheaper, avoiding paying the owners of the rights their just due for their hard work. What a petty, selfish reason.

This petty lawlessness is more of the breakdown in the rule of law that we conservatives MUST stand united against. How can we criticize the President for ignoring Constitutional laws he doesn't like, if we ignore laws we don't like? We must not just observe the parts of the Constitution we like and ignore those we don't.

Not speaking out against it is tacit approval and it's allowing one more brick to crumble in the fabric of our Constitutional wall against the rule-of-men-barbarians and the difference between liberty and lawlessness. It is of such small things that our Republic will be eventually lost.